PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2491, 3 May 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. Barrington Waters, advance representative of Mr. Clement Wragge, arrived in Gisborne by the s.s. Waikare yesterday to .make arrangements for the popular scientific entertainments to be given by Mr. Wragge in His -Majesty’s Theatre on Monday and Tuesday, May 10th and 11th. Miss A. M. Cabot, a Canterbury lady who has bad several years’ experience as a masseuse, arrived from the South by the s.s. Victoria on Saturday. It is Miss Cabot’s intention to reside in Gisborne. Dr. Pomare. Native Healtli Officer, arrived from the South by the s.s. Victoria on Saturday. A clever sketch of Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P., appears in the current issue of “The Citizen.” “Nobody,” says the writer, “can listen to Taylor and be ‘a moderate’: he makes you violently friendly or violently hostile. He has so much magneti.sm that the audience must point North and South. Just as the average politician is naturally dull, and naturally unable to be otherwise than dull, Taylor is naturally vivid and exciting, and unable ever to be otherwise than vivid and exciting. I would not like to live in a society of Taylor’s making. But I would not like to live in a country in which there was no Taylor. In a political society grown slovenly, unprincipled and dull, there is urgent need for somebody to stir up trouble. Leaven is not a wholesome diet, but bread without a little leaven is bad. Taylor was the leaven of Parliament in the past; lie is certain to discharge bis old functions again in the future. He has given ample evidences of an itention to regard the next three, sessions as three wars,” The first winner of a Rhodes scholarship from Canada of alien birth is_,a twenty-year-old Icelandic student of Wesley College, Winnipeg, with the typical Icelandic name of Skuli Johnson. He was selected last month from twelve applicants. Skuli Johnson was born fin the little storm-swept northern island of Iceland on September 6th, ISB. When lie was only a year old his parents emigrated to western Canada, settling first in Winnipeg and then moving to Saskatchewan. When ten years old be lost both parents and removed to "Winnipeg again to live with an uncle. He received all his education at W innipeg schools. In 1906 lie entered Wesley College, and has carried off seho arship after scholarship. He a good athlete and a member of Wesley Collegefootball, basket ball and hockey teams. He has also taken a prominent interest in literary circ’os, and this year is President of* the Wesley College Literary Society- The young Icelander from western Canada, it is felt, will make good in staid old Oxford.